that they may both by their life and doctrine set forth thy true and lively Word and rightly and duely administer thy holy Sacraments And to all thy people give thy heavenly grace and especially to this Congregation here present that with meek heart and due reverence they may hear and receive thy holy Word truly serving thee in holiness and righteousness all the days of their life And we most humbly beseech thee of thy goodness O Lord to comfort and succour all them who in this transitory life are in trouble sorrow need sickness or any other adversity And we also bless thy holy Name for all thy servants departed this life in thy faith and fear beseeching thee to give us grace so to follow their good examples that with them we may be partakers of thy heavenly kingdom Grant this O Father for Iesus Christs sake our only Mediator and Advocate Amen ¶ Then shall be added the prayers following WE humbly acknowledge before thee O merciful Father that all the punishments threatned in thy Law against sinners might justly fall upon us by reason of our manifold transgressions and especially our great unthankfulness for thy unspeakable mercies towards us But though our crying sins call aloud for thy wrath and vengeance to be poured down upon us yet there is mercy with thee O Lord that thou mayest be feared and with thee our God there is plenteous Redemption Oh enter not into Iudgement with thy servants For if thou shouldest be extreme to mark what we have done amiss O Lord who will be able to abide it At the Footstool of the Throne of thy Grace we prostrate our souls and bodies with fasting tears and supplications Look down graciously upon us we humbly beseech thee from the habitation of thy Holiness and of thy Glory and for the all-satisfying Death and Passion of thy blessed Son accept this our unfeigned Submission and Humiliation O deliver us from all our sins and then our enemies cannot hurt us Deut. 23. Let us ever remember what thou hast so strictly enjoyn'd That when the Host goeth forth against our enemies we should then especially keep our selves from every wicked thing Vnite our hearts that we may fear thy Name and then we need not fear what man can do unto us O let our ways be such as may please thee that Thou mayest make even our enemies to be at peace with us here and when we have accomplishâ—d our Warfare upon earth maist admit us to the blessed Vision of everlasting Peace in thine own glorious presence through his Merit and Mediation who is both the Lord of Hosts and the Prince of Peace Iesus Christ our Lord and blessed Saviour Amen O God the Protector of all that trust in Thee without whom nothing is strong nothing is holy who knowest us to be set in the midst of so many and so great dangers and seest that we have no power of our selves to help our selves Mercifully look upon our infirmities Raise up thy power and come among us and with great might succour us and in all our dangers and necessities stretch forth the right hand of thy Majesty to help and defend us against all our enemies Look we pray thee upon the hearty desires of thy humble servants Encrease and multiply upon us thy mercies that we who for our evil deeds do worthily deserve to be punished by the comfort of thy grace may mercifully be relieved and that Thou being our Saviour and Deliverer our Ruler and our Guide we may so pass the waves of this troublesom World that finally we may come to the land of everlasting life there to reign with Thee world without end through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen ALmighty God who hast promised to hear the petitions of them that ask in thy Sons Name we beseech thee mercifully to incline thine ears to us that have made now our prayers and supplications unto thee and grant that those things which we have faithfully asked according to thy will may effectually be obtained to the relief of our necessity and to the setting forth of thy glory through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen ¶ Then the Priest shall let them depart with this blessing THe peace of God which passeth all understanding keep your hearts and minds in the knowledge and love of God and of his Son Iesus Christ our Lord and the blessing of God Almighty the Father the Son and the holy Ghost be amongst you and remain with you always Amen The Order for Evening PRAYER ¶ Let him that ministreth read with a loud voice one or more of these sentences of Scripture and then say the Exhortation that followeth Joel 2.13 REnt your heart and not your garments and turn unto the Lord your God for he is gracious and merciful slow to anger and of great kindness and repenteth him of the evil Dan. 9.9,10 To the Lord our God belong mercies and forgiveness though we have rebelled against him neither have we obeyed the voice of the Lord our God to walk in his laws which he set before us Jer. 10 2â— O Lord correct me but with judgment not in thine anger lest thou bring me to nothing DEarly beloved brethren the Scripture moveth us in sundry places to acknowledge and confess our manifold sins and wickedness and that we should not dissemble nor cloke them before the face of Almighty God our heavenly Father but confess them with an humble lowly penitent and obedient heart to the end that we may obtain forgiveness of the same by his infinite goodness and mercy And although we ought at all times humbly to acknowledge our sins before God yet ought we most chiefly so to do when we assemble and meet together to render thanks for the great benefits that we have received at his hands to set forth his most worthy praise to hear his most holy word and to ask those things which are requisite and necessary as well for the body as the soul Wherefore I pray and beseech you as many as are here present to accompany me with a pure heart and humble voice unto the throne of the heavenly grace saying after me ¶ The Confession to be said of the whole Congregation after the Minister all kneeling ALmighty and most merciful Father We have erred and strayed from thy ways like lost sheep We have followed too much the devices and desires of our own hearts We have offended against thy holy laws We have left undone those things which we ought to have done And we have done those things which we ought not to have done And there is no health in us But thou O Lord have mercy upon us miserable offenders Spare thou them O God which confess their faults Restore thou them that are penitent according to thy promises declared unto mankind in Christ Iesu our Lord and grant O most merciful Father for his sake that we may hereafter live a godly righteous and sober life to the glory of thy